Alison Arngrim

Alison Arngrim earned something rare: immortality through villainy. As Nellie Oleson on Little House on the Prairie, she made audiences love to hate her, which takes far more skill than playing the sweetheart. What elevates her for me, though, is her second act. Rather than fading after her child-star years, she became an autobiographer and advocate, candidly turning her own experiences into something useful for others. That arc, from a deliciously wicked kid actor to an honest, purpose-driven adult, is what I find most admirable. A New Yorker raised through Hollywood High, she has substance well beyond the role that made her famous.

Name (English)

Alison Arngrim

Name (Japanese)

アリソン・アーングリン

Reading

ありそん・あーんぐりん

Born

January 18, 1962 (age 64)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

actor / television actor / film actor / autobiographer / child actor

High school

Hollywood High School

• Official sitehttps://www.alison-arngrim.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alison%20Arngrim
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AA%E3%82%BD%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%BC%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0%E3%83%AA%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q265540

Tags

• New York
• actor
• television actor
• film actor

Last updated

2026-06-17

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.